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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez
Study Guide
Summary
Plot Overview
Summary & Analysis
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Characters
Characters
Santiago Nasar
Angela Vicario
Main Ideas
Themes
Motifs
Symbols
Key Facts
Quotes
Important Quotations Explained
Quotes By Theme
Honor
Deceit
Guilt
Gender
Community
Quotes By Section
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Quotes By Character
Santiago Nasar
Angela Vicario
Pedro Vicario
Pablo Vicario
Bayardo San Roman
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Context
Plot Overview
Characters
Main Character Analysis
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Writing Help
How to Write Literary Analysis
Suggested Essay Topics
How to Cite This SparkNote
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1. What language do Santiago and his father speak when the two are alone?
Spanish
Patois
Arabic
Urdu
2. Which girl is Santiago bethrothed to?
Angela Vicario
Flora Miguel
Divina Flor
Clothilde Armenta
3. At what time of day was Santiago Nasar killed?
Dawn
Midday
Evening
Around six A.M.
4. Who performed the autopsy on Santiago Nasar?
Father Carmen Amador
Dr. Dionisio Iguaran
Colonel Aponte
Cristo Bedoya
5. How does Bayardo San Roman react after he discovers that Angela Vicario, his new bride, is not a virgin?
He shoots himself
He sends for his family
He tries to drink himself to death
He gives the house back to the widower Xius
6. True or False: The narrative clearly indicates that Santiago Nasar was undoubtedly the person who took Angela Vicario's vriginity.
True
False
7. What social construct most clearly influenced Vicario brothers' motive to murder Santiago Nasar?
Love
Honor
Valor
Prudence
8. True or False: Bayardo San Roman eventually returns to Angela Vicario.
True
False
9. Who yelled to Santiago Nasar to run to his house?
Yamil Shaium
Clothilde Armenta
Father Carmen Amador
Faustino Santos
10. Why does Angela Vicario wear red the day her family leaves town?
To show Bayardo that she has changed her mind, and that she loves him
To show the lover who took her virginity that she still loves him
It is a symbol of her burning shame
To show that she is
not
in mourning for her secret lover
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